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Men, Feminism and Education

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Leaders in Gender and Education

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This has been extremely difficult chapter to write, more difficult than I had imagined when asked to make a contribution. I have written and rewritten it many times. I have wondered what could be of interest to readers I do not know. Autoethnography has never been a research methodology that appealed.

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    Martin Mills (Professor)

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Mills, M. (2013). Men, Feminism and Education. In: Weaver-Hightower, M.B., Skelton, C. (eds) Leaders in Gender and Education. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-305-8_14

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